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Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding

Early humans seem to have recognised the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and developed surprisingly sophisticated social and mating networks to avoid it, new research has found.

ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space

Observations made with ALMA and ESA’s Rosetta mission by an international team, including researchers from NBI, have revealed the presence of the organohalogen Freon-40 in gas around both an infant star and a comet.

New generation ESA-satellites capable of revealing future sea level rises

NEGIS, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, splits into three gigantic glaciers - holding back ice masses equaling a global sea level rise of approx. one meter. ESA satellites can help reveal future sea increases.

Niccolò Maffezzoli

SODIUM, IODINE AND BROMINE IN POLAR ICE CORES

Nicolas Palm Perez

Electron Identification Using Machine Learning in the ATLAS Experiment with 2016 Data

Daniel Steffensen

Topological Magnetic Superconductors Supervisor: Brian Møller Andersen

Asbjørn Arvad Jørgensen

Characterizing the lattice induced light shifts of the Ytterbium optical lattice clock

Star formation influenced by local environmental conditions

Three scientists at Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), University of Copenhagen, have carried out extensive computer simulations related to star formation, and they conclude that the present ‘standard explanatory model’ is…

Sofie Lindskov Hansen

Single-Photon Manipulation in Nanophotonic Circuits Supervisor: Peter Lodahl

New research to treat acute malnutrition

Researchers from University of Copenhagen and humanitarian organizations have conducted a large study in Burkina Faso in West Africa treating more than 1600 children with acute malnutrition. The study showed that…

Massive Antarctic Volcanic Eruptions Triggered Abrupt Southern Hemisphere Climate Changes Near the End of the Last Ice Age

Halogen-rich eruptions created a stratospheric ozone hole over Antarctica that, analogous to the modern ozone hole, led to large-scale changes in

Emil Sørensen Bols

Proton-Proton Central Exclusive Pion Production at √s = 13 TeV with the ALFA and ATLAS detector

Henriette Petersen

The search for right-handed neutrinos with the ATLAS experiment

Mantas Cepulkovskis

Nonlinear photon interactions in waveguides

Peder Heiselberg

The effect on Agulhas Rings by the Southern Ocean wind stress

ERC Starting Grant for Jacob Bourjaily

Jacob Bourjaily, Assistant Professor of Physics at the Niels Bohr International Academy, has been awarded a Starting Grant worth €1.5 million from the European Research Council (ERC).

Satellite photos reveal gigantic outburst floods

The lake has been the source of four major outburst floods over the last 50 years - each representing an astounding mass of energy, equaling up to 240 Hiroshima-bombs. The next may happen as soon as 2018-19.

Smart atomic cloud solves Heisenberg's observation problem

One of the most fundamental principles of physics, "Quantum Back Action", has been challenged by researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, which has used laser light to link a vibrating membrane with cesium atoms.

GREEiNSECT PhD Defence by Afton Halloran

Afton Halloran will be the 1st GREEiNSECT PhD student to defend her thesis

Iron secrets behind superconductors unlocked

Due to magnetism iron should - theoretically - be a poor superconductor. Nevertheless certain ironbased materials possess fine superconducting properties. Why? Because the five unbound electrons found in iron...

At the age of 85-year old, Erik Høg is planning a satellite to be launched in 20 years

Erik Høg, who celebrated his 85th birthday earlier this year, has just had his fourth major astrometry project approved, a project that he started in 2013 and one that ESA is now joining. A satellite that will be…

Jeppe Trøst Nielsen

Testing Cosmological Models

Consumer attitudes Technical Brief #3

The technical brief #3 compiles information on studies regarding Kenyan consumers' preference and attitiude and willingness to pay for insect-based food products , investigated under the GREEiNSECT project.

Alexander Pedersen Lind

A Study of Diffractive Scattering with the ATLAS and ALFA Experiment